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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Swift, Jonathan

Swift, Jonathan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Gulliver's Travels: Book III, Chapters 1 - 5

Introductory Note

Most critics agree that Book II is the least satisfactory of the four
major sections of the Travels. We are disappointed with it because it is a
disjointed series of adventures in which Gulliver takes part only in name.
Somehow, in Gulliver's experiences in Book III, we seem to hear Swift and not
Gulliver doing the talking. Thus, we miss the rich interplay between the
character of Gulliver and ourselves, the readers; an interplay through which
the satiric meaning of Books I and II was created.

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